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- Bob Behling was born on 16 June 1944 in Franklin, Washington. He was an actor, known for Island of Death (1976), Naked in the Snow (1974) and The Hook (1976). He died on 14 November 1977 in Athens, Greece.
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Kate Drain Lawson was born on 27 June 1894 in Spokane, Washington, USA. She was an actress and costume designer, known for How to Marry a Millionaire (1957), Phantom of the Opera (1943) and Bride of Vengeance (1949). She was married to John Howard Lawson. She died on 14 November 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Composer
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English composer Richard Addinsell was born in 1904. After finishing his law studies at Oxford, he took a short course in music at the Royal College of Music in London and studied from 1929 to 1932 in Berlin and Vienna. From 1933 to 1935 he lived in the USA writing scores for the Hollywood studios.- Composer
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.
At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language. In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started an English fortnightly magazine.
Recognizing Srila Prabhupada's philosophical learning and devotion, the Gaudiya Vaisnava Society honored him in 1947 with the title "Bhaktivedanta." In 1950, at the age of fifty-four, Srila Prabhupada retired from married life, and four years later he adopted the vanaprastha (retired) order to devote more time to his studies and writing. Srila Prabhupada traveled to the holy city of Vrndavana, where he lived in very humble circumstances in the historic medieval temple of Radha-Damodara. There he engaged for several years in deep study and writing. He accepted the renounced order of life (sannyasa) in 1959. At Radha-Damodara, Srila Prabhupada began work on his life's masterpiece: a multivolume translation and commentary on the 18,000-verse Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana). He also wrote Easy Journey to Other Planets.
After publishing three volumes of Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada came to the United States, in 1965, to fulfill the mission of his spiritual master. Since that time, His Divine Grace has written over sixty volumes of authoritative translations, commentaries and summary studies of the philosophical and religious classics of India.
In 1965, when he first arrived by freighter in New York City, Srila Prabhupada was practically penniless. It was after almost a year of great difficulty that he established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in July of 1966. Under his careful guidance, the Society has grew within a decade to a worldwide confederation of almost one hundred asramas, schools, temples, institutes and farm communities.
In 1968, Srila Prabhupada created New Vrndavana, an experimental Vedic community in the hills of West Virginia. Inspired by the success of New Vrndavana, then a thriving farm community of more than one thousand acres, his students founded several similar communities in the United States and abroad.
In 1972, His Divine Grace introduced the Vedic system of primary and secondary education in the West by founding the Gurukula school in Dallas, Texas. The school began with three children in 1972, and by the beginning of 1975 the enrollment had grown to one hundred fifty.
Srila Prabhupada also inspired the construction of a large international center at Sridhama Mayapur in West Bengal, India, which is also the site for a planned Institute of Vedic Studies. A similar project is the magnificent Krsna-Balarama Temple and International Guest House in Vrndavana, India. These are centers where Westerners can live to gain firsthand experience of Vedic culture.
Srila Prabhupada's most significant contribution, however, is his books. Highly respected by the academic community for their authoritativeness, depth and clarity, they are used as standard textbooks in numerous universities. His writings have been translated into over eighty languages. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, established in 1972 exclusively to publish the works of His Divine Grace, has thus become the world's largest publisher of books in the field of Indian religion and philosophy.
In the last ten years of his life, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe twelve times on lecture tours that have took him to six continents. In spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature and culture.
Srila Prabhupada left us a veritable library of Vedic philosophy and culture. Highly respected by scholars for their authority, depth, and clarity, his books are used at colleges and universities around the world.
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes his works in over 50 languages.- Ewert Ellman was born on 24 June 1924 in Karlskrona, Blekinge län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll och deras vänner (1956) and Nattmara (1965). He died on 14 November 1977 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious writer and guru, is the founder/acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He founded ISKCON in New York City in 1966. Prabhupada produced many scholarly translations of ancient Vedic religious texts and made them accessible to the English speaking Western world. His most famous work is "Bhagavad Gita As It Is". His guru, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, before he died in 1936, had advised him to spread Krishna consciousness to the English speaking countries. In August, 1965, aboard the commercial ocean liner Jaladhuta, he left Calcutta, India, for the United States, landing in Boston in September, 1965. By teaching devotion to Krishna as the universal religion, he did much to assist the spread of Vaishnavism in the West. He initiated over 5000 disciples and established over 100 Hare Krishna (ISKCON) centers.
- Ferdinand Heim was born on 27 February 1895 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died on 14 November 1977 in Germany.
- Aleksander Aleksy was born on 16 December 1905 in Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Dwoje z wielkiej rzeki (1958) and Rzeczywistosc (1961). He died on 14 November 1977 in Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland.
- Bengt Norde was born on 30 May 1918 in Norrbotten, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Blockerat spår (1955). He died on 14 November 1977.